The Social Security Administration's Agency Financial Report (AFR) for
Fiscal Year (FY) 2017

Introduction

Our FY 2017 AFR provides information enabling the Congress, the President, and the public to assess our stewardship of the financial resources entrusted to us and our performance as an organization. The report provides a discussion of our programs, organization, and how we benefit the public; a high-level summary of our accomplishments during the year; a discussion of the challenges we face going forward; and an analysis of our financial position. The AFR also includes information on our program integrity efforts, as well as the Inspector General’s Statement on SSA’s Major Management and Performance Challenges. The report includes our annual audited financial statements and the report on the audit of those financial statements. FY 2017 marks the 31st year that we published audited financial statements and the 24th year that we received an unmodified opinion on our financial statements.

We divided the online AFR into the following sections:

Note: SSA's
FY 2017 AFR is in Portable
Document Format (PDF) format. You must have Adobe
reader software to view the PDF version of the files, which are
listed below: